Corset-steel fastening



L. HILL. Corset-Steel Fastening.

"N q,. 225 ,375. Patented Mar. 9, I880.

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UNITED STATES PATENLOWnrmn LUGIAN HILL, OF NORTH BROOKFIELD, ASSIGNOR TO THEODORE G. BATES AND DAVID H. FANNING, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

CORSET-STEEL FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,375, dated March 9, 1880.

Application filed December 20, 1879.

be struck by the usual stud connected with the other steel as the two steels at the front "of the corset joined by the eye-plate and stud move slightly apart. This sheet-metal hook has a nose, which, when it is struck by the stud in its outward movement, causes the hook to yield laterally to the direction of movement of the stud, and as soon as the stud passes the said nose the hook moves back to its normal position and checks the backward movement of the stud into the large part of the eye-plate until the stress of the hook'is again overcome.

In the patent referred to the fastening was made of wire; but in this my invention the stud backward past it.

The sheet metal fastening may be made stiffer than the wire fastening, and may be struck out by a die at very small cost.

Figure 1 represents, in front view, a portion of the two steels, with the usual hook and eyeplate, my improved fastening being applied thereto Fig. 2, a modified form, in which the fastening or hook part is made as an integral part of the eye-plate; Fig, 3, a modification, showing a fastening with two hooks; Fig. 4:, a modification in which the hook has several nose-like projections instead of one; and Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are details of the eye-plate and sheet-metal fastening separate from the steels.

The steel to and stud b and steel 0 may be of any usual kind.

The eye-plate d, attached to the steel 0 by the usual two rivets d 61 has an eye part, 2, to receive the head of the stud b, and leading from the said eye 2 toward the outer end of the eye-plate is a slot, 3, along which the shank of the stud b traverses after the same has been inserted through the eye 2.

-To prevent the unhooking of the eye-plate against which the shank of the stud strikes when being moved to the end of the slot most remote from that steel to which the said eyeplate is attached, the stud occupying a position at that end of the said slot when the corset is fastened and distended.

The stud in its outward movement strikes the said nose and the fastening is sprung hack, the stress of the spring metal being overcome, and having passed the said nose the latter springs back, occupying a position in the said slot at the rear of the stud b, where it acts as an impediment to the return of the stud into the eye 2. This sheet-metal fastening yields in a direction laterally to the movement of the stud along the slot 3.

In Fig. l the sheet-metal fastening is placed above the eye-plate, and is confined in that out, as in Fig: 2, toform the fastening as an In testimony whereof Ihave signed my name 10 integral. part ,ofsaid eye-plate. to this specification in the presence of two I claim subscribing witnesses.

In a corset-steel fastening, the eye-plate proi 5 vided with an eye, 2, and a slot, 3, leading LUGIAN HILL.

therefrom. combined with a connected sheeta metal hook having a nose to spring laterally Witnesses: across the slot 3 and impede the return of the BENJ. L. SAMPSON, stud from said slot, substantially as described. E. R. FIsKE. 

